
Episode 94: How Computers Work Part IV - Processor Architecture and Machine Code
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Instruction Sed Architecture of a Computer
The main memory of a modern computer is stored in the ram, and that stands for ranum access memory. A simple set up for the main memory is simply to have a very long array of registers. Each register in the memory has its own unique address. If i have four gigglebites of ramp or gigglebite of memory, that's about four billion unique addresses. The address bus will likely also have 32 bits, which means that i can address about four billion registers of memory, because i have two to the power of 32 different combinations of bits that i can send on the address pus. But we'll look at that in a bit more detail in the instruction sed architecture
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